Opioids

Medical treatment will be more widely available to opioid abusers while mailing illicit drugs will be more difficult under a measure to fight drug addiction that was signed into law on Wednesday by U.S....

New Delhi, Oct 16 (ANI): Even with concerns about addiction, side effects and the other risks of opioids are dominating headlines. A study found that people expect to be prescribed opioids and perceive them...

Massachusetts on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma LP, accusing the OxyContin maker of illegally promoting the use of opioids, becoming the first state to sue the drugmaker’s executives and directors to hold...

U.S. First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday shared a letter she received from a mother whose son died from a drug overdose, during a White House’s opioid summit. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). Melania...

U.S. President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency on Thursday, stopping short of a national emergency declaration he promised months ago that would have freed up more federal money. Nathan...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions tells a law enforcement conference in Alabama that “some of our government officials, media and Hollywood elites in this country have sent mixed messages, even harmful messages about drugs”. Rough...